Dear Searchers, One of the recent Ancestry Daily News letters had this article from a professional genealogist. Please remove the punctuation at the beginning and the end before cutting and pasting into your search box [or whatever it is called] (_http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=20623&key=A1090706_ (http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=20623&key=A1090706) ) This is an article by Paula Stuart-Warren, a professional genealogist who lectures a good deal. She reminds us that NOT everything we seek is on the computer and she still uses *old-fashioned* methods, like interviews, letters, writing to relatives and courthouses. (In fact, when I was searching last week a certain digitized census for a small county in Texas, I could not find in the index of that huge database tje surnames of some of my ancestors, who greatly populated this county. So, having long ago searched the census the old-fashioned way by reading the microfilmed census, I proceeded to seek the page [the online census] on which these folks with common surnames were most likely appear. Yes, they were on the census--but the index was incomplete. Someone had some months ago told me that the indexing of many of these large genealogical databases had been outsourced--probably in a country where workers get about 25 cents an hour. My informant told me the error rate was huge.) My grandparents and great-grandparents spent their entire lives in rural areas, areas not likely to show up on most computer databases, so this means using *old-fashioned* ways in genealogy to detect their activities and migrations and other events in their busy but not notable lives. I have to read mostly the censuses and the county records, not many of them digitized for the rural areas where my people resided and spent most of their lives. By the way, a subscription to this daily newsletter is FREE. I enjoy reading what professionals have to say about this intriguing hobby--which causes great clutter in my computer & genealogy room!!! Happy hunting! E.W.Wallace Five days a week there is an article by a professional genealogist, many of them worth printing and putting in your HOW TO notebook. This newlsetter is free to subscribers. I do not (yet) subscribe to Ancestry.com but I have purchased many of their books in the past. E.W.Wallace